Private Wealth Law - Maryland
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What the Team is Known For
Venable offers a variety of services to high net worth individuals, including estate planning and tax advice. The firm's trusts and estates team has grown significantly in the last couple of years with the arrival of a group of attorneys from another Baltimore firm.
Strengths
The issues confronted by high net worth clients transcend simple planning solutions and often involve other specialties. Venable has access to these other disciplines.
Venable offers an excellent combination of technical skills with practical, client-friendly advice.
Notable practitioners
Marianne Schmitt Hellauer's practice includes advising high net worth clients on estate planning strategies, including complex business and trust structuring issues. She also represents fiduciaries in estate and trust administration.
Marianne Schmitt Hellauer has been terrific.
Marianne Schmitt Hellauer provides excellent knowledge and service.
Jonathan Eisner deals with estate and tax planning issues and is particularly experienced at handling intergenerational wealth planning matters.
Jonathan is the best. He is far more than an attorney - he's also an incredibly well-rounded adviser.
Jonathan is fantastic. He is definitely a leader in the estate planning community here; he works on really sophisticated planning.
Jeffrey Gonya handles trust and estate matters and provides tax advice to high net worth clients. He also advises on trust and estate administration matters and often serves as trustee.
Jeffrey Gonya is deeply knowledgeable, very personable, and always forward-thinking.
Thomas Grace's expertise spans gift, estate and generation-skipping tax optimisation strategies, among other estate planning techniques. Grace often acts as a fiduciary for his clients.
Thomas is incredibly knowledgeable and efficient, and he has a wonderful bedside manner. He makes every idea we have better.
Thomas Grace understands all the technical issues and his clients’ needs and values.
